Are Movie Theaters Ripping You Off?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2024
- People are going to the cinema less and less these days. We look into why that is. Are movie theaters a ripoff? Let's find out!
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Canada was the first country in the world to have a two-screen theater. The Elgin Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario became the first venue to offer two film programs on different screens in 1957 when Canadian theater-owner Nat Taylor converted the dual screen theater into one capable of showing two different movies simultaneously. Taylor is credited by Canadian sources as the inventor of the multiplex or cineplex; he later founded the Cineplex Odeon Corporation, opening the 18-screen Toronto Eaton Centre Cineplex, the world's largest at the time, in Toronto, Ontario. In the United States, Stanley Durwood of American Multi-Cinema (now AMC Theatres) is credited as pioneering the multiplex in 1963 after realizing that he could operate several attached auditoriums with the same staff needed for one through careful management of the start times for each movie. Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City, Missouri had the first multiplex cinema in the United States.
Since the 1960s, multiple-screen theaters have become the norm, and many existing venues have been retrofitted so that they have multiple auditoriums. A single foyer area is shared among them. In the 1970s, many large 1920s movie palaces were converted into multiple screen venues by dividing their large auditoriums, and sometimes even the stage space, into smaller theaters. Because of their size, and amenities like plush seating and extensive food/beverage service, multiplexes and megaplexes draw from a larger geographic area than smaller theaters. As a rule of thumb, they pull audiences from an eight to 12-mile radius, versus a three to five-mile radius for smaller theaters (though the size of this radius depends on population density). As a result, the customer geography area of multiplexes and megaplexes typically overlaps with smaller theaters, which face threat of having their audience siphoned by bigger theaters that cut a wider swath in the movie-going landscape.
For me, it's nice going to the cinema but I only go if there's a movie I really want to watch. When it comes to the snacks, I go to the supermarket for them, as it's a fraction of the price.
That's a smart way to do it for sure!...It keeps it fun without breaking the bank.
This channel feels like a million sub channel. Keep it up!
That's so nice of you to say! :) Just trying to improve with every video and give good value to whoever watches.
It's all about convenience for me. It's just not convenient to have to research the movie theaters to find out where a movie is playing and the schedule times. Then you have to get ready and drive there. Money isn't as big a factor. We have Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. We'll be watching "Only Murders in the Building" tomorrow. If we need a snack we press the pause button.
All great points!....It's definitely only going to get harder and harder for them to stay a viable business. You can't beat the pause button either!